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5.19 <tt class="module">repr</tt> --
         Alternate <tt class="function">repr()</tt> implementation</a>
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The <tt class="module">repr</tt> module provides a means for producing object
representations with limits on the size of the resulting strings.
This is used in the Python debugger and may be useful in other
contexts as well.

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This module provides a class, an instance, and a function:

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  <td><nobr><b><span class="typelabel">class</span>&nbsp;<tt id='l2h-914' xml:id='l2h-914' class="class">Repr</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
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  Class which provides formatting services useful in implementing
  functions similar to the built-in <tt class="function">repr()</tt>; size limits for 
  different object types are added to avoid the generation of
  representations which are excessively long.
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<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-915' xml:id='l2h-915'>aRepr</tt></b></dt>
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  This is an instance of <tt class="class">Repr</tt> which is used to provide the
  <tt class="function">repr()</tt> function described below.  Changing the attributes
  of this object will affect the size limits used by <tt class="function">repr()</tt>
  and the Python debugger.
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  This is the <tt class="method">repr()</tt> method of <code>aRepr</code>.  It returns a
  string similar to that returned by the built-in function of the same 
  name, but with limits on most sizes.
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